LONDON -- Terence Young, 79, the British director who brought Secret Agent 007 to the movie screen as the director of the first, second and fourth of the hugely successful James Bond movies starring Sean Connery in the 1960s, died Sept. 8 at a hospital in Cannes, France, after a heart attack.
He was working on a documentary film in Cannes when he was stricken.
Mr. Young directed the first of the Bond movies, "Dr. No," based on Ian Fleming's novels about British spy James Bond and starring Ursula Andress playing opposite Connery as Agent 007, in 1962.
Mixing sex, violence and offbeat humor against expensive sets and exotic locations, "Dr. No" was a massive box office success and proved a winning formula for the other Bond movies.
The second, "From Russia With Love," again directed by Mr. Young and starring Connery, featured Robert Shaw and Daniela Bianchi and appeared in 1963. The third, "Goldfinger," directed by Guy Hamilton, appeared in 1964, and the fourth, "Thunderball," had Mr. Young back in the director's chair and appeared in 1965.
In each of the films, the suave yet foolhardy Bond saved the world from a series of wealthy and powerful villains. The winning formula for the Bond films also included the super-spy's penchant for fine food and drink, fast cars and voluptuous costars. The films also included extraordinary action scenes, special effects and bizarre villains.
Mr. Young, who was born in Shanghai, was tall, uninhibited and effervescent. In a career that spanned 50 years, he directed two dozen films. He began his film career in the 1930s as a screenwriter and started directing after military service in World War II, with the debut "One Night with You" in 1948. He directed numerous action and adventure films before striking gold with "Dr. No" in 1962.
In addition to the Bond pictures, he directed "Storm over the Nile" in 1955, "The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders" in 1965, "Triple Cross" in 1966, "Wait Until Dark" in 1967, "Mayerling" in 1969, "The Valachi Papers" in 1972 and "The Jigsaw Man" in 1984.
Although many of his pictures were enormous hits, he also was responsible for one of the biggest commercial disasters in film history. His "Inchon," made in 1982, starred British superstar Laurence Olivier as U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur in an action saga about the Korean War. The film, produced by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, bombed on release and later was cut back to 105 minutes from its original 140-minute length.
VIOLET COLE DAVIS
Aide in Children's Programs
Violet Cole Davis, 79, a former employee of a Fairfax County program for retarded preschool children who established a Sunday School for mentally retarded children at her church, died Aug. 29 at Mount Vernon Hospital. She had radiation enterocolitis.
Mrs. Davis, a resident of Alexandria, was born in Rock, W.Va. She graduated from Leakesville School of Nursing in Leakesville, N.C. She practiced nursing in North Carolina before moving to the Washington area in 1942.
In 1958, Mrs. Davis worked in a summer recreation program for mentally retarded children that was sponsored by the Fairfax County Recreation Department and the Association for Retarded Children. From 1965 to 1975, she was employed by the Fairfax County Health Department in a program for retarded preschoolers.
Mrs. Davis was a member of Groveton Baptist Church in Alexandria and founded its Sunday School class for disabled children. In 1993, she and her husband, James K. Davis, were honored by the church for their contributions to it over a 37-year period.
Mr. Davis died in 1993. Survivors include two children, Lou Davis Smith of Silver Spring and James L. Davis of Severna Park; five sisters, Lora Blankenship of Matoaka, W.Va., Texie Baldwin and Thelma Cole, both of Odd, W.Va., Fern Jones of Fort Mill, S.C., and Elsie Spradling of Moneta, Va.; and four grandchildren.
RAY A. HAMILTON
Arlington Dentist
Ray A. Hamilton, 75, a retired Arlington dentist who had served as president of the Northern Virginia Dental Society in 1963 and 1964, died Sept. 6 at a hospital in Princeton, W.Va., after a heart attack. He was stricken while visiting friends in Bluefield, W.Va.
Dr. Hamilton practiced dentistry in Arlington from the early 1950s until retiring and moving to Kilmarnock, Va., in 1988. He had served as president of the Arlington Rotary Club and the Old Dominion Study Club. He also had been a graduate chapter president of the Delta Sigma Delta social fraternity.
He was a member of the Washington Golf and Country Club and had won golf tournaments. Other hobbies included boating, fishing and painting.
Dr. Hamilton was born in Washington and lived in Pennsylvania until moving to Arlington in 1929. He attended Central High School in Washington and Virginia Tech, and graduated from the Georgetown University dental school in 1950. He was an Army veteran of World War II.
His wife, the former Louise Helen Georgie, whom he married in 1940, died in 1988. Survivors include a son, Richard A., of Daytona Beach, Fla.; two daughters, Georgii H. Donahue of Summerville, S.C., and Patricia E. Hamilton of Sharpsburg; and two grandchildren.
EULSE C. YOUNG
Army Officer and Marriott Employee
Eulse C. Young, 66, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and Vietnam War veteran who became a human resources administrator for the Marriott Corp., died of a heart attack Sept. 3 at Northside Hospital in Atlanta. He was stricken at his residence in Marietta, Ga.
Mr. Young was born in Dublin, Ga. He enlisted in the Army in 1947 and was commissioned through Officers Candidate School. He was a Ranger and a senior parachutist.
In addition to his service in Vietnam, he was a military adviser in Thailand and he had other overseas assignments in France, Germany, Italy and Japan. He was operations officer of Fort Myer in the early 1960s, and he was stationed at Fort Meade when he retired from the service in 1970.
His military decorations included two awards of the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star and the Combat Infantryman Badge.
Mr. Young went to work for the hotel division of Marriott when he left the Army. He worked in New Orleans and Houston until 1974, when he returned to the Washington area. He was assigned to Atlanta from 1984 to 1988 and then to Washington again. He retired in 1992. He moved to Marietta at that time. He was a former resident of Silver Spring.
His marriages to Rosa Young and Ara Young ended in divorce.
Survivors include his wife, Barbara Boone Young of Marietta; two children from his first marriage, Eulse C. Young Jr. of New Orleans and Arlette Young of Killeen, Tex.; a son from his second marriage, Forrest Young of Houston; two stepchildren, Fowler McManus of Marietta and Mignon McManus of Houston; two grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.
